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After reading the article “Mother Tongue”, I started interesting in Asian Immigration problem especially Chinese immigrants. The first generations of Chinese and Japanese immigrants were coming to the United States for mining gold, farming and railroad in the early of 19th century. They were followed by Korean and Filipino immigrants who came to work in the sugar cane plantations in Hawaii. Then, the growing numbers of Asian immigrants raise up much faster due to the economic issues and political conflicts in their homelands. At the end of the Vietnam War, in 1975, many people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos escaped the countries to come to the United States for political, social, and economic opportunities.
The state of California get into the period of economics downturn. The ethnic cleansing started smoothly and gradually. The cleansing had continued till 1930s China became the main warzone of fighting against with Japan. Nowadays, the difficult time of Asian has passed already, but the increasing number of immigrants have leads out a several new problems like employment, culture, educational difference and language. However, language is the most popular usual weakness of every immigrants. There’s almost two types of immigrant in US , one is integrative, another one is disintegrative. The first sort of immigrants is a “successful” immigrants, they could integrated in to the society easily and also keep their culture. The another one, unfortunately they just cannot integrating into the society, and they don’t willing to go to the “outside” world and meet friends.
I’ve read a article about a young 19 years old Chinese American woman who request the service of a mental health therapist. She said she’s the daughter whose mother age 42 yeas old, is ill and need treatment. She can speak good English but her mother Mrs Chan, needs a mental therapist who can speak Cantonese. But, the family has been searching for therapist who can speak

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